Hotter air holds more moisture, which means that rainfall can be heavier, or increased evaporation can exacerbate droughts.

D ONALD TRUMP has once again set his sights on the World Health Organisation ( WHO ). On January 20th America’s newly inaugurated president signed an executive order signalling that his country would ...

T HIS WEEK, between January 18th and 27th, thousands of volunteers in a band of territory stretching across north-eastern Australia from Darwin to Brisbane are venturing into the ...

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But he really does have the chance to lead America into the golden age he proclaimed in his second inaugural address.

Jump to Latin America, and coffee with a former government minister. Talk turns to free trade, and how Mr Trump’s love of ...

Investors and diplomats alike were relieved that he refrained from slapping universal tariffs on all imports on his first day ...

America started doing so at the end of the Civil War. The constitution was amended then to overturn the Dred Scott decision ...

I t has been centuries since Poland was last a great armed power, but the winged hussars are back. When Russia seized Crimea in 2014, Poland’s armed forces were the ninth-biggest in NATO. Today they ...

“IT’S A REALLY, surprisingly user-friendly experience,” says Stephen Askins, a shipping lawyer, of his interactions with the Houthis, the militia that has been attacking commercial ships in ...